December 16th 2011 -\u00a0February 18th 2012<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>Techincal Info<\/h3>\n\n\tOpening:<\/strong>\u00a0December 15th 2011, 6 pm to 8.30\u00a0pm
Duration:<\/strong>\u00a0December 16th 2011 -\u00a0February 18th 2012
Location:<\/strong> VISION QUEST Contemporary Photography piazza\u00a0Invrea 4 r, 16123 Genova, Italy
Tel.:<\/strong> +39 010 2468771 +39 339 7534993
Gallery Hrs:<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday to Saturday 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm and by appointment
Website:<\/strong> www.visionquest.it<\/a>
Email information:<\/strong>\u00a0 info@visionquest.it<\/a><\/p>\nDorothy Hong\u00a0 will attend the opening reception<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Press Release<\/h3>\n\n\tVisionQuesT gallery is pleased to have Dorothy Hong back with the new exhibition \u201cSaigon Glances\u201d
This project started as a Fashion Shoot in Saigon (Ho Chi Min City) Vietnam, for Fader Magazine. The task was to make a sequence of images as cinematic as possible \u2013 almost like a film noir, drawing inspiration from the films of the Chinese director Won Kar-Wai and specifically \u201cIn the Mood for Love\u201d.- Hong decides not to use models but local residents who are asked to participate by also suggesting possible locations in the city, away from stereotypes. As always Dorothy Hong searches for that natural, dramatic light that distinguishes her work, she places her subjects in this light, as if to ensure that\u00a0 the same light will shapes, sculpts them.\u00a0 This, as always in her case, enriches the project with other meanings: her narrative choice is expressed through the way she captures and organizes the space around her subjects \u2013 in this way she comes close to the cinematic narrative of Won Kar-Wai.- The sensations are concentrated in the atmosphere created and not by the possible affairs of the protagonists. It matters little whether they are normal people or models. These images become the carriers of a Saigon far from what many of us expect to see, a young, intense city in an intersection of light, colour and time passing but leaving behind its visible traces.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the end, without the original intention of doing so, I tried to portray Ho Chi Minh City in a light that wasn't so typical and obvious, the way that most people would think of Saigon as being, but tried to cast it in a way that represented more of it's inner city and it's youth, the Vietnam that I had experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n
Opening:<\/strong>\u00a0December 15th 2011, 6 pm to 8.30\u00a0pm Dorothy Hong\u00a0 will attend the opening reception<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> VisionQuesT gallery is pleased to have Dorothy Hong back with the new exhibition \u201cSaigon Glances\u201d \u201cIn the end, without the original intention of doing so, I tried to portray Ho Chi Minh City in a light that wasn't so typical and obvious, the way that most people would think of Saigon as being, but tried to cast it in a way that represented more of it's inner city and it's youth, the Vietnam that I had experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duration:<\/strong>\u00a0December 16th 2011 -\u00a0February 18th 2012
Location:<\/strong> VISION QUEST Contemporary Photography piazza\u00a0Invrea 4 r, 16123 Genova, Italy
Tel.:<\/strong> +39 010 2468771 +39 339 7534993
Gallery Hrs:<\/strong>\u00a0Wednesday to Saturday 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm and by appointment
Website:<\/strong> www.visionquest.it<\/a>
Email information:<\/strong>\u00a0 info@visionquest.it<\/a><\/p>\nPress Release<\/h3>\n
This project started as a Fashion Shoot in Saigon (Ho Chi Min City) Vietnam, for Fader Magazine. The task was to make a sequence of images as cinematic as possible \u2013 almost like a film noir, drawing inspiration from the films of the Chinese director Won Kar-Wai and specifically \u201cIn the Mood for Love\u201d.- Hong decides not to use models but local residents who are asked to participate by also suggesting possible locations in the city, away from stereotypes. As always Dorothy Hong searches for that natural, dramatic light that distinguishes her work, she places her subjects in this light, as if to ensure that\u00a0 the same light will shapes, sculpts them.\u00a0 This, as always in her case, enriches the project with other meanings: her narrative choice is expressed through the way she captures and organizes the space around her subjects \u2013 in this way she comes close to the cinematic narrative of Won Kar-Wai.- The sensations are concentrated in the atmosphere created and not by the possible affairs of the protagonists. It matters little whether they are normal people or models. These images become the carriers of a Saigon far from what many of us expect to see, a young, intense city in an intersection of light, colour and time passing but leaving behind its visible traces.<\/p>\n